New Witnesses May Tie Skakel to ’75 Killing
Prosecutors have lined up more witnesses to testify that Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel made incriminating statements about the 1975 bludgeoning death of a neighbor, court documents released Monday suggest.
Two former schoolmates have already testified during previous hearings that Skakel confessed.
“There are people who are available to be called to trial in addition to those who have already been called,” State’s Atty. Jonathan Benedict said after the court records were unsealed.
Benedict would not identify the potential witnesses. The court file refers to them by number only.
Skakel, 40, is charged in the 1975 slaying of Greenwich teenager Martha Moxley, who was bludgeoned with a golf club on her wealthy family’s estate. Skakel and Moxley were 15 at the time.
Michael Skakel is the son of Rushton Skakel, the brother of Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, Ethel. An arrest warrant in the court record said authorities have spoken to six former residents of the Elan School, a residential drug and alcohol treatment center in Maine that Skakel attended in the late 1970s.
Some of those quoted in an affidavit said Skakel made tearful confessions to killing Moxley.
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